Sunday, August 24, 2014

Gluten-free Zucchini Dark Chocolate Brownies

I found it today and fell in love - this Mama goes all-out making good food for her family, working around food intolerances, and trying to make good choices for herself......

She reminded me a lot of me!

So!

I found this recipe for coconut flour zucchini muffins and was SO excited. See, my Mother in law dropped off some coconut flour today and I knew this would be the perfect recipe to try right away. I changed around a few things because as always, I used what I had on hand...

Plus, I have a crazy sweet tooth lately! ;)

SO... what you need:

1/2 cup dark chocolate chips

2 tbsp cocoa powder

1/4 cup coconut flour

1/2 tsp sea salt

1/2 tsp baking soda

1 cup finely shredded zucchini, packed

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

1/4 cup nut butter - I used all-natural, unsalted peanut butter

2 tbsp melted olive oil

1/4 cup plus 1 tbsp honey

1/4 cup chopped walnuts

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Put the 1/2 cup choc chips in a food processor and pulse until they are the consistency of sand (very course). Then add remaining ingredients, except walnuts, and pulse until fully blended.

I only have a tiny food processor, so I pulsed the chocolate chips together, and whisked the rest of the ingredients together with a fork.